Computer capabilities at western european universities

Abstract

This report on the author's trip to universities in Western Europe in the summer of 1966 gives brief descriptions of computing activities at each institution visited. Present equipment capabilities vary from moderate to large scale; however, many institutions plan to acquire complex time-shared systems in the near future. In the author's opinion, the state of the art lags behind that on this continent. This lag is attributed to four principal factors: (a) the handicapping organization of academic procedures; (b) the university-government financial relationship; (c) the subordinated organization of the computing facility; (d) the paucity of professional interchange of knowledge. The effects of these constraints are explicated.

Computing capabilities at Argentine and Chilean universities

“…Certainly our information concerning computing matters in these countries is almost noncxUtent. A previous report [1] on Western European universities' cited various references pertaining to computing capabilities in Europe and the Soviet Union, but references to the same topic for all of Latin America are sadly limited. Computing Retneujs for the period 1960-1968 carried two references to South American countries, Argentina [2] and Brazil [3]; two others [4,5] deal with Mexico.…”